This study determined the economic value of reptiles and amphibians inhabiting the Charlotte-metropolitan area of North Carolina. Results provide a mechanism for placing a quantitative economic value on an important natural resource that can be used to mitigate for anthropogenic impacts.

Cylindrotheca closterium is a diatom commonly found in neritic waters of the Newport River estuary in North Carolina. This study measured diatom growth rates and motility. The results have implications for using diatoms in a variety of biotechnological and commercial applications that would require industrial-scale production including abalone culture.

The Diana fritillary (Speyeria diana) is a forest-dwelling butterfly of high conservation concern in North Carolina. Observations of the Diana fritillary butterfly are reported in a burned oak-pine forest in the Bald Mountains of North Carolina. Burning may be an important management tool for enhancing the habitat of this species.

Snipe eels and lancetfishes are bathy and mesopelagic fishes with wide, yet poorly known Atlantic and Pacific Ocean distributions. New information is presented on the distribution of these species off North Carolina.